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I'm not Going Out of His Life...I'm His Friend
Mookie got his mentor a few months ago. Finally, the soon-to-be 11-year-old says, because he’s been waiting awhile and his three sisters have all had mentors and they kept saying how great they are, how they took you places and helped you when you needed it and “I didn’t get to do anything. I just stayed home.”
He was, he admits, a little nervous about meeting his mentor, a man named Sonny Jackson, whom Mookie heard worked at the police department.
Yes, that Sonny Jackson, the Denver Police Department spokesman. Sonny also sits on the board of Metro Denver Partners, a local nonprofit organization that has been pairing children with adult mentors for nearly 40 years. Sonny has been on the Partners board for seven years and, he says, it occurred to him this year that it was time to “put my money where my mouth is” and become a mentor himself. Sonny meet Mookie. Mookie meet Sonny.
Rocky Mountain News 11.10.2007